Example sentences of "[pers pn] should [verb] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His widow , Margaret , said : ‘ Alfred told me that I should carry on with the case if he died , and that is exactly what I will do . ’ |
| 2 | Valeria had asked us for the afternoon and suggested that we should stay on for the evening , as her mother had gone to spend the night with a friend . |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps we should pass on to the home-made cakes , ’ said Mervyn . |
| 4 | We were on a lonely stretch of road just outside London : it was late in the afternoon , darkness was about to fall and we were arguing about whether we should hurry on to the city or stay at some roadside tavern for the night . |
| 5 | The invaders assembled at Stornoway were now divided by a bitter quarrel over whether or not they should move on to the mainland , only ended when one of the Earl Marischal 's supposed subordinates , William Murray , Marquis of Tullibardine , suddenly produced a commission granted to him two years before by James which appointed him Commander-in-Chief of all his forces in Scotland . |